Menu Planning #148

Our meals need to be nutritious, clean, flexible, quick and cost effective.

Between our work schedules and after school activities, we need to carefully

plan our meals so that we do not end up ordering out. We try hard to keep our

total food and household products to under $100.00 per week.

Goal: $400.00

What did we spend?

Week 1- $118.55

Aldi: $71.27

Kroger: $47.28

CVS:

Rebates:

IBOTTA: $4.28

Week 2- $159.78

Kroger: $20.02

Kroger: $114.76

Farmer’s Market: $25.00

CVS:

Rebates:

IBOTTA:

Week 3- $148.40

Meijers: 34.84

Kroger: $113.56

CVS: 0

Rebates:

IBOTTA:$15.35

Week 4- $110.05

Meijers: $10.37

Kroger: $99.68

CVS: 0

Rebates:

IBOTTA: $17.75

Total: $536.78

Rebate Total: $37.35

Final Total: $499.43

NOTE: Rebate total DOESN’T include Kroger Cash or Refunds because they

will come off of the Kroger Bill automatically the following week. In addition, I

don’t count CVS as part of the grocery bill because I normally use gift cards and

ECB to get my items for free, so in the end the money is usually to my benefit.

Grocery Shopping Tips: Don’t allow yourself to get overwhelmed because you

will tend to overspend, like I did this month. Everyone started back to school

and the lack of time, increased stress and general overall exhaustion really

affected my bottom line this month. Well the next two months will need to be a

little tighter in order to make up for our overspending this month.

Let’s take a look at what we ate this week.

Breakfast Options:

Yogurt

Cereal

Granola Bars

Monday

Broccoli Soup

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Tuesday

Tacos

Salad

Wednesday

Mississippi Pot Roast

French Fries

Vegetable Sticks w/ Dip

Thursday

Mississippi Pot Roast - Day 2

French Fries

Vegetable Sticks w/ Dip

Friday

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Pizza

Salad

Jalapeno Pepper Poppers

Saturday

Pasta

Sausage

Salad

Bead

Sunday

Potato Soup

Salad

This week’s rough plan:

M- Potato Soup w/ Salads

T- Tacos

W- Baked Pasta

Th- Baked Pasta- Day 2

F- Stromboli

Sat- Jambalaya

Sun- Chili

* Indicate that the recipe is a new one for our family.

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